4 Creative Ways to Supercharge Your Creativity

4 Creative Ways to Supercharge Your Creativity

How to put yourself in inspiration’s path. By Cassie Hughes (Co-founder & Strategy Director) and Gabrey Means (Co-founder & Creative Director) at Grow Marketing. When creativity is your livelihood, keeping the fresh ideas flowing is mission critical. But...
Expanding our Reach: Partnering Our Way to More Change

Expanding our Reach: Partnering Our Way to More Change

Hackers/Founders announces $20M venture fund to invest in startups at White House Demo Day and we, Women 2.0 will be a partner. By Shaherose Charania (Co-Founder & CEO, Women 2.0) Women 2.0’s roots come from finding ways to support founders in technology — that’s...
#TechTuesday: Using the Whenever Gem in Your Rails App

#TechTuesday: Using the Whenever Gem in Your Rails App

A wonderful little gem that allows you to schedule your tasks in plain old Ruby and updates your crontab automatically on a Capistrano deploy. By Kathy Heffern (Software Developer, Giant Hat) This post originally appeared on the Giant Hat blog. There comes a point in...

Don't Listen to Your Users

If you invest in growth before you have retention, you’re renting users, not acquiring them. By Gillian Morris (Co-founder & CEO, Hitlist) This post originally appeared on Medium. Gillian’s startup Hitlist was the People’s Choice Award Winner at our...
Don’t Listen to Your Users

Don’t Listen to Your Users

If you invest in growth before you have retention, you’re renting users, not acquiring them. By Gillian Morris (Co-founder & CEO, Hitlist) This post originally appeared on Medium. Gillian’s startup Hitlist was the People’s Choice Award Winner at our...

Cloud Security: How to Keep Your Business Safe

Saving all your startup’s data on the cloud is safe… right? By Sarah Landrum (Founder, Punched Clocks) It’s this simple: If data security breaches can happen to large corporations with billions of dollars of market capital, such as Home Depot and Target, then...

How to Validate Your App Idea

Does anyone actually want your app? By Megan E. Holstein (CEO, Pufferfish Software) This post comes on the heels of my popular “How to Refine Your App Idea” post. If you haven’t read it yet, read it first before diving into this piece. This piece originally appeared...